Famous Quotes About - age

  • A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ... Maurice Chevalier {view}
  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • A man growing old becomes a child again. ... Sophocles {view}
  • Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero {view}
  • After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. ... Bette Midler {view}
  • After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. ... Helen Gurley Brown {view}
  • Age considers; youth ventures. ... Rabindranath Tagore {view}
  • Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ... Jim Fiebig {view}
  • Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ... Tom Stoppard {view}
  • Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Age is how we determine how valuable you are. ... Jane Elliot {view}
  • Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ... Don Marquis {view}
  • Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. ... Betty Friedan {view}
  • Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ... Kitty O'Neill Collins {view}
  • Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. ... Albert Camus {view}
  • All diseases run into one, old age. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson {view}
  • An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. ... Agatha Christie {view}
  • Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ... Henry Ford {view}
  • As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero {view}
  • As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ... Andrew Carnegie {view}
  • As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ... Margaret Mead {view}
  • As men get older, the toys get more expensive. ... Marvin Davis {view}
  • As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. ... Frances Conroy {view}
  • Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ... Aristotle {view}
  • Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ... Hosea Ballou {view}
  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ... Victor Hugo {view}
  • Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. ... Andre Maurois {view}
  • He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. ... Gene Fowler {view}
  • How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ... C. S. Lewis {view}
  • I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ... T. S. Eliot {view}
  • I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. ... Bob Hope {view}
  • I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. ... Christine Lahti {view}
  • I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. ... William Ernest Hocking {view}
  • I get all fired up about aging in America. ... Willard Scott {view}
  • I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. ... Josh Billings {view}
  • I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ... Lauren Bacall {view}
  • I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. ... Sting {view}
  • I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ... Francis Bacon {view}
  • I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. ... James Broughton {view}
  • I'm not afraid of aging. ... Shelley Duvall {view}
  • I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ... Henri Frederic Amiel {view}
  • In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ... Knut Hamsun {view}
  • In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. ... Pope Paul VI {view}
  • In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ... Beverly Sills {view}
  • Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ... Sam Ewing {view}
  • It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ... Brigitte Bardot {view}
  • It takes a long time to become young. ... Pablo Picasso {view}
  • Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. ... Bill Cosby {view}
  • Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ... Harold Coffin {view}
  • Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ... Don Marquis {view}
  • Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ... Bob Hope {view}
  • Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ... Doris Day {view}
  • No man is ever old enough to know better. ... Holbrook Jackson {view}
  • No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. ... Katharine Graham {view}
  • Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ... Samuel Ullman {view}
  • None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
  • Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ... Ira Gershwin {view}
  • Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ... Emily Dickinson {view}
  • Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ... Eleanor Roosevelt {view}
  • Old age is a shipwreck. ... Charles de Gaulle {view}
  • Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. ... Louis Kronenberger {view}
  • Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ... Golda Meir {view}
  • Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ... Theodore Roosevelt {view}
  • Old age is no place for sissies. ... Bette Davis {view}
  • Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ... James Thurber {view}
  • Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ... Confucius {view}
  • Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ... Dwight L. Moody {view}
  • The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ... Doug Larson {view}
  • The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ... Leon Edel {view}
  • The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. ... Logan P. Smith {view}
  • The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ... Doris Lessing {view}
  • The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ... Doris Day {view}
  • The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ... Bob Wells {view}
  • The trick is growing up without growing old. ... Casey Stengel {view}
  • The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. ... Hume Cronyn {view}
  • There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ... Mignon McLaughlin {view}
  • There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. ... Susan Anton {view}
  • There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ... Fay Weldon {view}